Blunt: Obama needs to be 'realistic'

1/20/13 9:42 AM EST

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, vice chairman of the Republican Senate Conference, says President Barack Obama should “legislate realistically” during his second term.

“He doesn’t seem to have a specific agenda. He speaks in general terms. He likes the executive order approach a lot more than the legislative approach,” Blunt said on "Fox News Sunday."

“You’ve got to legislate, and you’ve got to legislate realistically. You don’t control the entire congress. It takes three entities to get a bill passed into law and you’ve got to come up with something that can pass a democratic senate, a republican house, and the white house can at the end of the day be for,” he said.

Blunt was critical of the recent decision to transition the Obama campaign arm into a non-profit group to help rally public support for the president’s agenda.

“I was surprised this week to see him transition his campaign committee into an ongoing campaign style effort to have an impact on the Washington debate,” Blunt said. “It doesn’t seem to me in the first term that worked out very well.”